Four general partners from Advanced Technology Ventures‘ and Morgenthaler Ventures‘ life science teams have joined forces to invest up to $172 million in biopharmaceutical and medical device startups. Lightstone Ventures, led by Michael Carusi and Jean George from ATV and Morgenthaler’s Chris Christoffersen and Hank Plain, said today it’s closed its first life science venture […]
Missy Krasner landed at Google Health in April of 2006 — a time she calls pre-social, pre-quantified-self and pre-internet-of-things. Google wanted to create a central repository for consumers to collect and store their health records, and make the APIs available for developers to build on top of. We all know how that turned out: Google […]
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
Piggybacking off a $21 million round completed last year, Elcelyx Therapeutics has secured a $20 million series C to fund late-stage clinical development of its drug candidates for type 2 diabetes and weight loss. The round was led by GSM Fund LLC with participation from previous investors Morgenthaler Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and […]
The fifth company spun out by the ophthalmology-focused incubator formed by Versant Ventures, Morgenthaler Ventures and Split Rock Partners has raised $8 million.
The hypertension treatment market is hot, with Medtronic leading the way in commercializing a renal denervation device. An estimated two dozen other companies are chasing the medical device heavyweight using the same approach, and today another startup announced that it raised a $30 million series C to add staff and fund clinical trials of its […]